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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
  • Where available, URLs or DOIs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 11-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
  • If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in have been followed.
  • AI Disclosure: The author(s) have included a declaration regarding the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) or AI-assisted tools in the manuscript's preparation, in compliance with the journal’s ethics policy.

Author Guidelines

1. Before you submit

  • Jurnal Pendidikan dan Pemberdayaan Masyarakat (JPPM) publishes original research that adds novelty to non-formal and informal education. See Focus and Scope and Types of Manuscript.
  • The manuscript must not be published before or under consideration by another journal. The corresponding author confirms this at submission.
  • Read the Publication Ethics, Plagiarism Policy, and Generative AI Policy. The editors may return submissions that do not follow these guidelines without review.
  • Write the manuscript in the official Microsoft Word template of the journal.

Download the JPPM template

2. At a glance

Language English
Length 12–15 pages, or about 5,000–7,000 words
Title No more than 14 words
Abstract Fewer than 150 words, in English and Indonesian
Keywords 3–5
References About 20–25 current references in APA style
File Microsoft Word, OpenOffice, or RTF, in the journal template
Peer review See the Peer Review Process

3. Structure of the manuscript

Title Clear and informative, no more than 14 words.
Authors Names, institutions, and email addresses, without academic titles. For a paper with several authors, mark one corresponding author. Leave the author details out of the file used for review.
Abstract and keywords Fewer than 150 words in English and in Indonesian, followed by 3–5 keywords.
Introduction The background, a review of the literature, the aims, and the significance and novelty of the study.
Methods The research design, the tools, the data, and the data sources.
Results and Discussion Clear results, discussed and linked to the literature on non-formal and informal education.
Conclusion A summary of the findings and their policy implications, in the same order as the body of the paper.
Acknowledgments Thank people and institutions that helped but do not qualify as authors. Following the journal rules, place the acknowledgment in a footnote to the title.
Author Contributions For papers with more than one author, state what each author did, for example: conceptualisation, methodology, data collection, analysis, writing the original draft, and review and editing.
Funding Name every funder and the grant number. If there was no funding, write: “This research received no external funding.”
Conflict of Interest Declare any financial or personal relationship that could influence the work. If there is none, write: “The authors declare no conflict of interest.”
Ethics Approval and Consent For research with people, name the ethics committee and the approval number, and state how informed consent was obtained, or explain why approval was not needed.
Data Availability Say where the data can be found, or why they cannot be shared, for example to protect participants.
Declaration of Generative AI Use Name any generative AI tool used, its purpose, and how the output was checked. If none was used, write: “No generative AI was used in preparing this manuscript.”
References Only the works cited in the text, in APA style.

The statements from Author Contributions to Declaration of Generative AI Use come after the Conclusion and before the References. In the file used for review, write them without names that identify the authors.

4. General writing format

Paper A4, double-sided, single line spacing
Margins 1.5 inches at the top and 0.8 inches at the bottom, as set in the template
Body text Constantia, 11 pt. Indent the first line of each paragraph by 5 characters.
Title 14 pt, centred. Capitalise only the first word and proper names.
Main headings 11 pt, bold, upper case, left-aligned.
Sub-headings Left-aligned and in italics. Capitalise each word except connecting words.
Emphasis Use italics, not underlining.

5. Tables, figures, and equations

  • Number tables and figures with Arabic numerals (Table 1, Figure 1).
  • Put table titles above the table and figure titles below the figure.
  • Give the source below the table or figure, together with any notes.
  • Use horizontal row lines only in tables, with no vertical column lines.
  • Place tables and figures within the text, not at the end of the paper.
  • Do not paste raw software output. Summarise the results in a table.
  • Number equations in brackets, (1), (2), on the right.

6. Citations and references

  • Cite in the text with the family name of the author and the year, for example Prasetyo (2011) or (Sujarwo, 2019; Kusumawardani, 2020).
  • List in the references only the works cited in the text, following APA style strictly.
  • More than 80% of the references should be from the last ten years, and textbooks should make up less than 20%.
  • Give the DOI or URL of each reference where one is available.
  • Use a reference manager to keep citations and references consistent.

Common APA formats:

Journal article: Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Year). Title of the article. Journal Name, Volume(Issue), pages. https://doi.org/xxxx

Book: Author, A. A. (Year). Title of the book (Edition). Publisher.

Chapter: Author, A. A. (Year). Title of the chapter. In E. Editor (Ed.), Title of the book (pp. xx–xx). Publisher.

7. Indexes

  • Give a subject index of the specific terms used in the manuscript.
  • Give an author index of the key authors cited, written family name first.

8. Ethics and declarations

  • Research with people needs informed consent and, where required, ethical approval.
  • Declare any conflict of interest and the funding of the research.
  • Disclose any use of generative AI. See the Generative AI Policy.
  • All listed authors must have contributed to the work and agreed to the submission.
  • Corrections and retractions follow the Correction and Retraction policy, based on COPE guidance.

9. How to submit

  1. Register or log in. When you register, add a short bio with your full name, academic title, institution, and contact numbers.
  2. Go to Online Submission and upload the manuscript file, prepared in the template.
  3. Follow the progress of the submission in the system, and answer the reviews within the time given by the editor.

10. Review and decisions

Every manuscript is checked for scope, similarity, and use of the template, and then peer reviewed. The possible decisions are: accepted without revision, accepted with minor revision, accepted with major revision, or rejected. See the Peer Review Process.

11. Fees and copyright

  • There is no submission fee. An Article Processing Charge of IDR 1,000,000 is payable only after acceptance. Authors without funds can ask for a waiver, explaining their financial situation. See Author Fees.
  • Articles are open access under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. The copyright of accepted articles is transferred to JPPM. See Copyright and Licensing.

12. Submission checklist

  1. The manuscript is original, not published before, and not under review elsewhere, or an explanation is given to the editor.
  2. It is written in the journal template, as a Word, OpenOffice, or RTF file, within 12–15 pages.
  3. The title has no more than 14 words, and the abstract has fewer than 150 words, in English and Indonesian, with 3–5 keywords.
  4. The author details are removed from the review file.
  5. Citations and references follow APA style, with DOIs or URLs where available, and every reference is cited in the text.
  6. The text is single-spaced, in 11 pt, with italics instead of underlining, and tables and figures are placed within the text.
  7. The statements after the Conclusion are complete, including the declaration of generative AI use.

Questions

Write to the editorial office through the Contact page.

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